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Updated: June 10, 2025
As they begin to haul these up again hand over hand, you will look to see them all topple head foremost into the well, but they do not as a rule. It makes an imaginative European giddy to look down into that Tartarean depth; but then the Bheestee is not imaginative.
For while I stand here I shall be a queen indeed! Peace; or war, famine and the plague. Summon the executioner. Arrest Durga Ram. Strip him before my eyes of his every insignia of rank. He is a murderer. He shall go to the tread-mill, there to slave till death. I have said it!" Far in the rear of the cowed assemblage, near the doors, stood Ahmed, in his old guise of bheestee, or water carrier.
As the hot season advances, the water retreats further and further into the bowels of the earth, and the labour of filling the mussuk becomes more and more arduous. At the same time, the demand for water increases, for man is thirsty and the ground parched. So the toils of the poor Bheestee march pari passu with the tyranny of the climate, and he grows thin and very black.
"Hi! Cliattak-wallah! Bheestee! Hi! hi! You chap with the umbrella, you fellow with the water, clear the way! This Baboo comes, this Baboo rides, he stops not, he stays not, he is rich, he is honored. Shall a pig impede him? Shall a pig delay him? Jump, sooa. Jump!"
Of course there are many wells, but some have a bad reputation for guineaworm, and some are brackish, and some are jealously guarded by the Brahmins, who curse the Bheestee if he approaches, and some are for low caste people. This well is used by the station generally, and the water of it is very "sweet."
He slept a little before dawn, and was aroused by voices below. He listened. "I am Jawahir Lal, the water carrier. Each day at dawn I water the garden of Ramabai to pay a debt." Bruce looked toward Ramabai, who slept the sleep of the profoundly wearied. A bheestee, perhaps a messenger. "Go around to the rear gate, which can be opened," said the trooper.
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